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VR kiosk commemorates WWI Christmas cease fire in France

December 22, 2017

Timescope, a virtual reality kiosk that allows users to journey through time via a headset to view recreated historical scenes, has been installed at a site in northern France to commemorate a World War I Christmas Day cease fire, according to New Atlas. 

The touchscreen, multi-lingual kiosk gives tourists a virtual time machine allowing them to see what the local area looked like at the time of the historical event and how it has changed. 

The Timescope kiosk installed at the Monument des Fraternisations in Neuville-Saint-Vaast in northern France takes viewers to the trenches of 1915, to a spontaneous cease fire on Christmas Day, where troops from opposing forces met on the battlefield for a moment of peace during the war.